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Welcome to the June issue of our monthly newsletter which brings you all the latest from Horkan's Gardening Centre.
We would love to hear your ideas or gardening tips which we will include in next month's issue. You can contact Horky on 094 26997 or email us at horky@iol.ie with all your ideas and helpful tips.Colour in the garden for June.
Summer colour is important in all gardens provided through hanging baskets, planted containers or with bedding plants dotted through existing shrubs or herbaceous plants.
Summer bedding plants are so easy to grow, flowering from June to early winter. Now is the ideal time to add instant colour to your garden with some easy to grow summer bedding.
Horkys tip: Plant some Nemesia Sun drops to create a real splash of colour through existing border plants including roses and shrubs.
Nemesia sun drops are a riot of colour from June to late summer with a bright mixture of pastel colours which brighten up any border or container.
The range of bedding plants has been added again this year by Horkans to include all the old favourites including lobelias for borders and containers, dwarf dahlias, French marigolds, red leaved begonias and dwarf snapdragons with NEW additions including the accent busy lizzies which are a favourite at Horkans ensuring you with long - lasting colour until early winter.
Busy lizzies are perfect for baskets, window boxes and borders and will reward you with continuous colour irrespective of weather conditions.
Look out this year for the popular mixed verbenas which again offer a long season of flower colour on compact bushy plants perfect for tubs & borders.
Plants fresh from Horkans nursery.
Horkans garden centre established their own independent nursery production unit a number of years ago to produce a range of high quality summer flowering basket and container plants including a range of trailing petunias in larger pots to give you our customer a stronger and more colourful petunia for containers or planting out into borders.
Our nursery also produces a wide selection of flowering hanging baskets and containers to reward you with outstanding colour until early winter.
Drop your containers in now for instant colour.At Horkans we like to share our success stories with you the customer.
When growing our own selection of plants on the nursery we use Westland nursery stock compost which contains a twelve month slow released fertilizer called osmocote which reacts with the moisture and tempeture of the compost and releases its special nutritions as the plant is actively growing.
Westland nursery stock compost has a special grade of peat which allows better root penetration and added gravel to give lime and drainage.Judge for your self by comparing our range of home grown plants.
Westland nursery stock is available from both our Castlebar and Sligo centres.Another national award for Horkans.
Horkans Garden Centre were awarded the Eircom National Prism award in the Conrad Hotel Dublin by the Minister for Trade and Enterprise Mr Eoin Ryan, this National award recognises the high quality and standards to which Horkans use the Internet to develop their business with both customers and suppliers.
E commerce is an important step for any business and Horkans have embraced this by developing an informative web address at www.gardencentre.ie.
Check out our weekly gardening articles in the Western People, Mayo News, Connaught Telegraph and Sligo Weekender or by clicking onto www.castlebar.ie.Weekly gardening radio programme on N & MWR.
Join us every Saturday on our weekly gardening programme with mid and northwest radio stations. The programme is broadcast live at 10.10 to 11am every Saturday morning and covers Donegal, Sligo, Mayo, Roscommon and Galway.
The gardening help line is always open on 0907 30169 or 071 61555 for your gardening queries. Paraic Horkan from Horkans garden centre is our weekly gardening expert and is joined every week with well-known gardening personalities to bring you the very best in up to the minute garden advise.
If you would like a specific gardening topic covered or a question answered call Paraic now on 0907 30169.Special thank you to our Sligo customers.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank our Sligo customers for the very positive and complimentary comments on our new Sligo centre. The reaction to date has been very encouraging, with many people travelling from Donegal, Roscommon and Leitrim to shop at Horkans, we will endeavour to keep up the superb quality of service, advice and quality of plants and products.
Special thanks also to our dedicated team for their commitment to providing you the customer with out standing customer care.
Our new centre is located on the Bundoran rd in Sligo and you can contact the team on 071 38870 for good gardening advise.
Talk to Peter, Mairead, Nadine, Jane and Ken.
News from our Castlebar team.
Horkans Garden Centre in Castlebar has five key departments namely floristry, pet centre, plant centre, outdoor products and indoor.
Which are ably managed by heather, Jane, Adrian, Mick and Janet respectively. Their expertise ensures a high quality of both product and customer service which is Horkans trade mark.Floristry Dept.
Heather offers you the widest selection of fresh flowers, for every occasion, by guaranteeing fresh deliveries from our suppliers every morning.
We are experts in bouquets, cut flowers and indoor plants.
Pet Centre.
Jane provides the pets at Horkans with TLC to ensure you receive a pet that is used to regular affection. We ask that you continue to care for your pet with the same degree of care.
Jane organises monthly events for our pet club members to keep them informed of the very best methods in caring for pets.
If you would like to become a member or need advise of the care of pets give Jane a call on 094 26997.
A wide selection of quality pond fish is available from both our centre's.Plant Centre.
Adrian is the plant manager at Horkans in Castlebar and is responsible for bringing you're the very best in quality plants and good service.
Adrian has a superb selection of flowering and foliage shrubs ready for planting throughout June.
Look also for the variety clematis belle of Woking with its beautiful large double flowers, which are bright pink in colour.
Always use Westland nursery stock compost when planting.Horky's Gardening Tips for June.
- Plant your hanging baskets and window boxes with trailing petunias, trailing geraniums, white bacopa, red verbenas, trailing fuchsias and mixed lobelia.
- Use Westland tub & basket compost when planting up any containers. It contains a special swell gel and a high potash fertiliser to ensure high performance from your selection of plants.
- Plant fresh herbs into window boxes or herb planters now to have tasty basil, parsley, chives and thyme all summer.
- Plant up spare containers with 6 strawberry plants to give you tasty fresh strawberries all summer. Look for the excellent variety called F1 Karen and plant her NOW.
- Plant some summer colour throughout the garden in shrub & rose borders with mixed verbenas, petunias, crystal palace lobelia and dwarf dahlias.
- Interested in growing some home grown fruit? Then plant a couple of dwarf coronet apple trees in large containers or amongst existing trees and shrubs.
Coronet apple trees are reliable croppers with excellent eating varieties like James grieve, Katy, beauty of bath, elisions orange and discovery. Bred for taste and compact shape coronets are a winner.- Feed, weed and moss kill your lawn with Scott's renovator, which kills un wanted broadleaved weeds and moss, greens your lawn without forcing growth.
- Sow new lawns now with green velvet dwarf lawn seed. Green velvet creates a rich green sward which is easy to maintain and requires less mowing.
- Treat your roses with a dressing of rose plus fertiliser once a month and prevent pests and diseases by spraying with rose clear every two weeks.
- Protect all your young bedding and vegetable plants with a dressing of slug pellets or slug liquid. Remember slugs and snails relish all soft new growth and can devour your plants over night.
- Protect young dahlias, salvias, and new growth on existing trees and shrubs, from flea beetle damage. Apply a systemic insecticide now and in two weeks time.
Quality garden furniture at Horkans.
We at Horkans are delighted to announce that we are the agents for Alexander rose quality hardwood garden furniture, made from teak and iroka hardwood specially for Irish conditions.
Alexander rose furniture range is on show a both our centres in Castlebar and Sligo and our experienced staff will advise you on the best type of garden furniture for this season.Quality delivery service from Horkans direct to your door.
We have teamed up with a local delivery company to have your fresh garden plants and products delivered to your door twice weekly.
This new service ensures a quick and efficient delivery and lets you get on with the important job of gardening.
Talk to Peter in our Sligo branch or Finbarr in Castlebar to avail of our new service.We would love to hear from you!
We would love to get feedback from you our customer on how we can improve our service or product range to give you the very best in gardening.
Feel free to contact our managers in Sligo (Peter 071 38870 ) or Castlebar ( Finbarr 094 26997 ) and give us your thoughts and ideas on how we can serve you better.Horky's special offers for June.
Large box of miracle grow liquid feed - £4.59.
120 litre bark mulch - £ 4.99.
(Ideal for controlling weeds in shrub and rose borders.)
Feed, weed & moss kill your lawn with Renovator - 600 meters covered for £ 25.00
Westland tub & basket 80 litre with 25% extra free - £5.95.
Westland rose tree & shrub 8o litre - Buy 2 get the third one free.
Frost Proof Terracotta Shrub Tub - only £14.95.
12 Dark Blue Lobelias - £1.95
(Ideal for flower borders patio tubs and containers)
200 litre Shamrock Moss Peat - only £4.99
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